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lished by Page Six York City, N wet he Comprodaity Pu mai} al) checks to ats BY TAMMANY COPS HARRISON GEORGE. d inve: By so police have f °¢ And the unam pales, igating the is that ous verdict nists are gu : the hopefuls of the Civil Liberties over mmany for th y always st of the estimable 1 its verdict of high strike with d the months back, Steve Kato ion of the exone District A ey Crain, be it remembered, said of the verdict which railroaded the } York Unemploy f March 6, th it was the decision in ten i n ed in this review of the partment f in connection with the unaccountable injury received by sixty persons following the anti-war demon- stration on Union Square August Ist. It ap- t District Attorney Crain owns, or t from the burlesque hoity-toity e” wherein Captain Day and his 110 t evening for the fr culous coincidence right laid in wait by t of the place. Why the Ambush? go into ambush? Even Thomas might ask that. 1 » no answer. Doubtlessly d themselves thus merely to see h order” occurred. Far be it from y took that day off from ting in behalf of precinct captains, a dol- a barrel for beer sold by speakeasies, to deliberately planting a lone harness bull (care- inded by dicks) in the crowd to fight exactly in front of the ambush. pa that would be too severe a charge inst Tammany, pure and spotless. The most that Mr. Bailey the Civil Liberties Union charges that Captain Day, who said ackjacks and no violence against of no | he the saw workers, has “imperfect powers ob- Powers of Vera just what Captain Da y said, as not since we, as a small the neighhor’s kid got his “I held up my fist and have we had such testi- following, published by the New orfect for; t repeat it, how sloody nose, mony York viain said he saw no blows struck; in an apparent feign being attacked by the police, through themselves to the pavement so vio- lently that they n ve been bruised.” In such ci the “investigation” . of course, not only “thorough and fair,” Liberties Union remarked at the w several civilians, t t cumstanee as the Civil but was directe | to the point of finding to the Communists were be cracking their own hi 4 World” on August 8, opined drawn and quartered an investigation,” because Communisis refused to attend the bur- It by saying that we should « coddled im defiances of the law.” The Judge, Jury and Executioner Mul- that while sixty persons might have ten up in a crowded street, yet no- York at we should be hung, the wa body saw it. The “World” should be satisfied. We were not “coddled.” Did the Editor Eat the Numbers? But there seems to be some tall liars in this business. The New York in an “Telegram” liberals’ praise of the “a model of fairness and thor- and belaboring “the stubborn and refusal of the Communist victims to appear and testify.” plainly says: “Inasmuch no witness could identify them (the police who did the clubbing) by itor “inquiry oughness , repeating the as BURLESQUE REVUE; A SKIT | name or shield number, the definite re- sponsibility could not be fixed.” Yet, what do we find in the Civil Liberties | Union press release of August 8, but the fol- lowing statemen “Blummer (a reporter for this same Tele- gram) took six shield numbers (of the po- lice who did some clubbing), which he turned in to his paper.” | This is surprising! A Telegram reporter, who collected the numbers of cops who slugged the workers, turns them over to his editor and so testifies at the burlesque show run by the police. The police inspector tells him to pro- duce them. The editor has them. But waits 12 days until the police have exonerated the police Then comes out saying that “no wit- identify them -by name of shield ness could number” and winds up with saying that the Communists are to blame! Wante A “Particular Offender.” It seems even stranger, or would to those not wise enuogh to know that Tammany has any three-card monte dealer skinned both wa; from the jack, that Mulrooney’s final “state- ment” says: “No witness was able to identify any par- ticular offende: When the Civil Liberties press release of August 8, giving a resume of the hearing, said that Charles Yale Harrison, a reporter for the New York “American” = . identified an officer number 8807 as responsible.” It will be recalled that Croswell Bowen, an- other reporter of the Hearst press, was among those whom Captain Day said bumped their heads against the pavement out of pure cu If he did so, naturally his head was not quite right to begin with. But here we have the capitalist press disbelieving its own’ reporters. True, the workers who have read the capi- talist press have no high regard for these as- siduous liars’ statements. But what a world, when their own editors conceal the evidence they turn in, and later come out with a state- ment virtually claiming that their reporters have, perhaps from habit, become constitu- tionally unable to tell the truth, | The Telegram Goes Iago One Better. | Thus it boils down to the fact that the Tele- gram editor, who thinks Norman Thomas of “very real value”’in talking about socialism without meaning a word he says, repudiates its own reporter as of scant veracity, hides the evidence, and mourns because the Communists “handicapped” the investigation by not tes' with badge edness. fying. e Evidently the “Telegram” would have be- lieved what the Communists said if they had appeared? Then the matter would have come out differently? Hokum! If the Communists had appeared, every capi- talist editor would have seen to it that their statements would appear, if at all, as “biased,” “prejudiced,” “attempts to make a soap-box speech,!)etc., awhile Mulrooney’s final report would:-have read:,,._,, “As a result of a thorough and fair in- vestigation of the general statement that police clubbed persons in this gathering, twenty pernicious reds have been deported, twenty more sent to Welfare Island to keep Foster company, and twenty more have been discredited as witnesses because they would not kiss the New Testament, refused te wear an American flag on their lapel, and spoke sarcastically of my scheme of improv ing the cordial relations between the police and the people by giving poor mothers and children a boat ride. Therefore the police exonerate the police and find the Commu- nists guilty.” Recipe For Identification. Anyway you take it, in this burlesque play, | the Communists are found guilty. That’s why they are forming Workers’ Defense groups to | be quite sure hereafter that “particular of- fenders” may be identified, if not by name or number, then by the bandages they wear. Campaign Notes By P. ALN EYWOOD BROUN has the Theatrical Al- liance actively working for his election on the “socialist” ticket. Irving Berlin, the paper: say, is writing a special song for Brother Broun. Presumably, Al Jolson or Eddie Cantor will sing it at the “socialist” campaign meet ings. A runor has ‘it that each “socialist voter in the “silk stocking” 17th Congressional District where Broun is running, will receive two passes to Earl Carroll “Vanities” for vot- ing “socialist.” * * * Governor Roosevelt, head of the Tammany ticket in the New York elections, is trying ®ard to have a few Tammany heads tempor- arily chopped off in order to pull through the Tammany ticket next November, We} either of the three capitalist parties. demo cratic, republican and “socialist” say anythiny against Ewald, for sending hundreds of fur workers to prison during the 1927 fur strike Ewald was doing the work for all these partie: and it is therefore to be expected that because of his beastly anti-labor record, he will be saved by capitalism. * Some .f the Communist candidates are be hind the bars—in prison. A good number of the candidates of the three capitalist parties are also behind the bars—in Wall Street or other banks. * . * 1. The Amtorg has manufactured docu ments against itself. 2. Had planted then on Whalen’s desk. 3. Poo gullible Grover accepted them as genuine and has gotten into a mess. So, in short, is the statement of the gambler and the official translator of the Fish Committee, the czarist Gregory Bernadsky. Moreover, the owner of the Philin Gambling Club adds that from the very beginning he had recognized the documents to be forgeries. But Mr. Grover Whalen had sworn befor: the Fish Committee in the presence of Pbeenadeky that there’s no question about the » geruineness of the documents, and that he can } prove it so by the data obtained by his unde: Why didn’t Mr. Bernadsky warn ver? Why did he Jet him swear And who is the greater scoundrel when he says that he knew the documents to be forgeries from the very beginning. Most prob- ably he has good reason for knowing that. All the three of them, Whalen Fish and United States Attorney Tuttle were trying to le into: governorship or some other office with the help of these or some other “docu- ments.” Whalen. was about to become a na- tional hero on account of his red-baiting, So sure, that Fish immediately followed the <» » line, and Tuttle, who’s anxious to get the governor nomination from the republican par ty, went a: far as to have the newspaper pab- lish a remarkable story of how tke Amtorg is smuggling in Swiss watches in order to smug- gle then’ out to the Soviet Union. What has become of all that? What has made the democratic party so humble as to keep silent about the heroism and the dis coveries of Sherlock Holmes Whalen? Says Mr. James W, Gerard: Fifty-nine nag nates rule America, “These men rule by virtue of their ability Mr. Gerard say “They themrelves are too busy to hold political office. but they determire who-shall hold such office. And how! . * * Of course, the cuestion is, what does Gerard mean by “ability.” Does he mean the abilitie displayed by John D. Rockefeller at the Colo rado and other strikes? Does mean the ab ility of Me, Mellon to crush strikes in Penn- sylyania and other states, or does he mean tnc ability. of Adolph S. Ochs, Roy W. Howare ris H. K, Curtis, Robert H. McCormick anv o*her magnates of the capitalist press, to lie about labor affairs, about t*e Communist move ment, about th» Soviet Union? A little explicitness wouldn't harm, although itis hardly necessary. ; * * . “he Times and other canitalist naners nev forget their darling candidates. Thomas an’ Broun, following the dictum of “all the nex that’s fit to print,” fit for the canitalist clar« of course: And for that reason there must b: complete silence about the Communist candi dates, particv'arly those in prison, A certain A. C, Miller of Williston, N. D a Trotskyite, was running for nomination o the primaries of the renvblican rarity in tha! 2 Benenne that ha we sem. he Wes suspended for Vurce mons by tie Lrotskyire Daily, LOOK!” Ex-Ambassador Gerard raised a 59 leading exploiters und capitalists rule republicans, democrats or “socialists” 8,000,000 unemployed starve. big the RAN nc eS ynit Porty U.S.A. winw the are in power. orker Sy mail everywtere: Une year 36 Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. and foreign, which are: One yr. $8; six mons, $4.bU SUBSCRIPTION RATES: six months $3 two months $1; excepting Boroughs of BY other day. He revealed the fact that They wovid run it no matter if the All of these big shots coin billions while country. Lumber Workers Answer the By GEORGE HARRINGTON, LU ROOUR \age cutting, terrible speed-up and even worse working. conditions than they already had are the methods by which the lum- bercompanies, like most other employers in the present crisis, try to foree the workers to carry the whole burden of the depression, The workers begin to resist. The first strug- gle (on a small scale) against these cuts was in Kalama, Washington, when the workers of the Blue Ribbon Products Company, went out | on strike against a 20 per cent wage reduction and the attempt of the bosses of the shing!« industry to unlead a stock buying proposition upon the workers, thus to take the remainde) of their meager wages away from them. The National Lumber Workers Union, while fighting side by side with these workers, point | ed out that this was but the beginning and they must organize industrially into the N.L. W.U. and spread the strike to the entire lum- ber industry, because the other workers will meet a like fate and must take the offensive before the bosses develop their attacks. And, surely enough, the lumber barons have extend- ed their attacks to other sections of the in- dustry. 25 Per Cent Cut, Recently the workers in the Bloedel-Donoyau Lumber Company received a 2 5 per cent wage cut. This came on top of an already bad sit- uation, after having received a wage cut pre viously, and working under the most inhuman speed-up em in the lumber industry. The workers of Bellingham are beginning to realize that they must fight now or be ex- terminated and they have chosen to fight. The group, according to the *Militant” of August 15th. Henceforth, nobody will doubt in the perman- entness of the Trotsky revolution. Any Trot- skyite caught running for office on a repub- Vean or democratic ticket is to be suspended or three months. For how many months ‘all a “permanent” “revolutionary” be sus- nded by a republican, democratic or socialist vchine? Since November is near, Tammany District ‘torney of New York has di covered that the ‘Ik racketeers under charyes for almost a ar ought to be put to trial. That, of course, sn’t mean that these or other racketeers be put in fail or that their racketeering 1 be stopped. * . The “socialist”. party has a new celestial isition in the field. A ers rt1 Doecio “bur, ehurehm fron 1 al d inated for State Senator on the “socialist” ket. Nobody will dare say that the 2 not trying everything for the le.” The way they are progressing, the! * that when next elections turn around, some of a bishop or maybe a pope will be one 2 ” candidates. ee the social democratic perty of A vatria += geo eth i i ‘ek cross on its pink flag, that the Ampries affix a similar ornamert to the'r un, Instead of an arm and torch, we may * on the election ballots and » there ave all After th srood ree Matthew Woll will be able to join resoee’s le party wih) wach bney Oo heanilgy, ' i Bosses’ Wage Cutting Campaign lumber barons are beginning to realize now that the struggle is on and are resorting to every means of attack. One of the recent developments in this sit- uation is a letter that was sent to all the lum- ber barons from the offices of the Loyal Le- gion of Loggers and Lumbermen, known throughout the Northwest as the “4L’s.” ‘This letter, dated August 7, states that “two com- pany houses were burned and a charge of powder was set off 50 feet from the bunk- houses at the Moclips stockade.” The 4 L's, a company union outfit, tries to create the ‘mpression that the two company that were burnt are the houses in were housed and it does this in order to creat» sympathy amongst the lumber barons for the strike-breaking outfit. But the truth of the matter is that the company houses that were burned, weer those in which strikers’ families lived at Moclips, Wash., and the houses weer fired in the middle of che night by <gents of the bosses in their cam- paign of tcrror against the strikers. Defend Themse‘ves. The charge of powder referred to in the letter was also planted by agents of the bosses. Every night the bosses send prowlers, with guns and searchlights around the shack in which the strikers of the M. R, Smith Lumber and Shingle Company are housed by the Werk- ers Internatibnal Relief, and the only reason why this house has not been burned down by the agents of the bosses, is because the werk- ers have guards on duty day and night to ward off these attacks. Referring to the “men and women in Bell- ingham” who “are bitter because of recent wage cuts there,” the letter of the 4 L’s gives the purpose of their letter away. They state ‘It isn’t the wage cut nearly so much as the way the company did it.” In other words, the 4 L’s organization, which is a company uniox and a twin-brother of the American Legion, is now appealing to the bosses to employ this out- fit so as to better put their wage-cuts across. The way the “Loyal Legion” gone about it, would be as follows: They would “oranize” the workers in their 4 L’s organ- tion and would call a meeting of the workers with stool pigeoné planted all over the meet- ing, amonget the rank and file and then some stool-pigeon would get up on the floor of the mecting and propose to help the “poor” boss: out of their predicament by proposing the workers themselyes ask that the wages be cut houses which se .would have | THE DEPORTATION PLANS OF THE BOSSES By LOUIS KOVESS, tae American government, the gentlemenly lynchers of the South and North as repre- sented by the Fish Committee of the Con- gress, the fat boys of the American Federa- tion of Labor machinery, the Oil Press, the Steel Press, the Lumber Press are all howl- ing in chorus, “Deport the damn foreigners and radicals!” The number of deportation bills increase, as the number of lynchings of Negroes grows. The proposals to register the foreign born workers swells in numbers, as the imprisoning of American and foreign born grows in num- ber. Measures to fingerprint the foreign born are urged, as the police clubs more and more attack the demonstrating unemployed. The workers demonstrate for “Work or Wages.” The republican and democratic and “socialist” administrations reply, “It’s a riot.” The work- ers demand a seven-hour day, five-day week. The bosses’ government answers that it is criminal syndicalism. The workers say, “Or- ganize and strike.” The ruling class answers that it is insurrection. Declining Capitalism. The declining system of capitalism, shaken by a severe cri takes the slightest moves of the workers, be it against wage cuts or ra- tionalization, for social insurance, or a penny wage increase—as a direct threat against the system of exploitation and oppression. Deportation is only one weapon in the same hand that holds police elubs, jail sentences, electric chairs. The campaign of terror against the working class takes the most vicious form against the Communist Party, since t the lealer of the working cla: By discriminat- ing against and terrorizing the foreign-born workers, the ruling class wants to create a division in the ranks of the working class—to set native and foreign born against each other, just as they try to set white against Negro, skilled against unskilled workers, industrial and poor farmers against each other, to be easier to exploit them and oppress them. A Plan of Action of the Ruling Class Against the Foreign Born, Different bills, proposals, statements, news- paper editorials clearly indicate what the rul- ing class prepares to do against the millions of foreign born workers, as part of their ter- ror against the working class. This year, three bills have already been in- troduced in Congress aimed against the for- eign born workers. 1, The Blease Bill (S.1278) which provides that all aliens should be furnished with cer- tificates, containing name, country of birth, date of birth, nationality, and includes his signature, address and photograph. 2. The Cable Bill (H.R.10207) which re- quires that the alien shall report annually to the authorities and receive a new certificate. 8. Aswell Bill (H.R.9101) provides for the registration of all aliens within 90 days after the etactment of the law. They must register every year. Certificates of registry would be given to “aliens.” These would include a photograph of the registrant, his full name and other names by which he has been known at any time, his signature or mark, data about his arrests or convictions with. the charges and final dispositions of each case, ani other information the regulation might prescribe. An alien would be required to report imme- diately any change of name, or change of physical appearance. If the president con- sidered it desirable for national defense, he could require “all or any part of the aliens” to report “at such places and times” as he might designate. Aliens would be on the de- mand of any agent of the Denartment of Labor or any police or peace officer. Viola- tions of the provisions an! regulations would be punishable by a fine of not more than $5,000, imprisonment of not more than two years, or both, An alien who failed to reg’ster for two years might be denorted. More Bills. Other bills are prepared, providing for the deportation of foreign born workers on a mass seale, When the House of Representatives voted the congressional investigation of Communist activities, Fish demanded that every alien Communist be deported. On July 2, the Fish Committee urged that the immigration laws be amended to provide for more workable and more stringent depor- tation laws. Fish urgéd Congress to adopt alien regis- tration. He declared himself in favor of “speedy and permanent deportation of foreign born Communists.” The New York Times (July 23, 1930) states, “There is no room in the U. S. for any Com- munists or for any persons affiliated with the Third International. If they do not like our form of government, let them depart, or re- turn to Russia. The New York World says, “Aliens should he registered and finger-printed.” (July 19, 1930.) There are proposals that the citizen papers of the naturalized foreign born workers should be revoked for activities in the labor move- ment. Others propose that native born radi- cals be deported to a distant island in the Pacific Ocean. Grover Whalen, former commissioner of po- lice, an accomplice in the forged ‘Soviet docu- ments,” who led the attack against the unem- ployed on March 6th, also advocates for de- porting radicals to an island. Wants Wholesale Deportations. J. A. Lyons, head of the Federal Bureau of Police Dept., stated, “If wholesale deporta- tions occurred for one month, the bottom would drop out of the Communist movement of the U. S.” from N. Y. Times, June 18. ‘ The American Federation of Labor recom- mended this year, “registration of all aliens as a means of tightening the immigration Villiam Green ident of the A. F. of L., stated on January 25, 1930, “The immigration laws should be amended as to require the registration of all immigrants and the issu- ance of certificates to those legally in this country so that when called upon, the immmi- grant can show he is officially here, or be depoired.” Green proposed also that the Fish Comm'ttee include on his plan the deportation of all persons in this country who are not of white blogd. (Federated Press, May 22, 1930.) The socialist party, the social fascist ene- mies of the working class in words and to some extent “do not favor” these proposals. But in their actions, they are with the capi- talist government, with the fascist leaders of the A, F. of L. In’ Reading, Pa.; where the ycovernment is in théir hands, they pro- hibited the campaien of the International La- bor Defense, to fight against the deportation of foreign born workers and to defend the political prisoners. In Milwaukee, they take the place of the “Whalens.” In strikebreaking and anti-Soviet propaganda, they are in the forefront They are agents for the instrv- ments of war, like the Feague of Nations, -llozg-Briand Pact, ete., as well as any other ngencies of capitalist oppression. -Unite and Fight Against Deportation, The Aswell Bill clearly states that the for- eign born workers, as well as the native born workers will be forced, by a decree of the’ president, to serve in their murderous a‘tac’s against the British and other imperialist pow- ers, to seize new markets, new territories for exploitation of the workers. Organize For Struggle. © A wide front strongly united; against the united front of the bosses is necessary to struggle against registration, finger-printing and deportation of foreign born, against dis- zation against any section of the wor! , fov the relesse of the politizal oncrs, among them, the unemployed delega tion, Workers in shops, unions, ex-servicemen’s organizations, fraternal soc’ ‘s, mobi tor the coming Conferences for the Protection of the Foreign Born, ganize their employees into this outfit. company union See the War Is On. The reason why the 4 L’s is making this attempt to build up its decrepit organization, known throughout the lumber industry as a company union outfit, that was organized dur- ing the war to prevent strikes and to up production of lumber for the war, cause at present many lumber mills like the Bloedell-Doaovan Company have their own company unions, which do not work as cunning- ly and insidiously as does the 4 L’s, which is composed of old-time labor fakers, American Legion men and bosses, t The 4 L octfit has been watching the strug- gles of the lumber workers and they see that the conditions of the workers in the lumber industry are intolerable, that the workers pre- fer to starve while they fight the bosses for better conditions, than to starve and keep on producing at breakneck speed and with wage cuts, The 4 L's see that the workers in the lum- ber industry, who have a glorious tradition of | struggle against the lumber barons, have reach- | ed a point where they might as well go down to “keep their jobs for a little while longer | rather than to go out on strike and have the | irdystry shut down.” The 4 L's chide the bosses for not putting over the'r annual “Rolleo,” which is a contest ; onest the lumber workers in riding logs At this “Rolleo,” the bosses used to come and shake hands with the workers, the winhers got a few dollars or a prize and some free feeds are given out to the stiffs, an dihus “bar. monious” and “peaceful” rclaiions ere main- tained. This year the bos in B neham did not bave their annie) »* rca the wage cut was too stiff cand too raw for the mon ed that it would tase tule pienie or a “Rolleo” to queleh the flames of revolt. The statement in the letter which presumes to quote a worker as saying, “1° we could get nway with it, we would blow their guts out,” ianufaciured simply for the effect that it will have on the bosses, like a Meare tes 0 ce Uw boss's to parm’ the 4 L's to or- tale & is iad fighting, than be kicked around by the bosses. The 1.W.W. nas completely gone over to the camp of the bosses, and cannot fight in the interests of the workers, The fakers of the 1.W.W. have sone eral! the same the fakers in the A. F. of L., | ng t ark- ers on evory occasion, and the workers see this every day. Join the Lumber Workers’ Union. There is but one answer which the jumber workers can give, and that it—organization into the Navional Lumber Workers Union, which is a fighting industrial unionembracing every section and category of the lumber in- dustry, an orgar. ization of the rank and file h fights militantly in the inter- ing class, anc is affiliated with the Trade Union Unity League, the American as ' section of the Red International of Red Unions. The National Lumber Workers Union calls upon every worker in the lamber industry to organize indusivially, into the National Lum- ber Workers Union, throvyh rank and file control and sct up their sho), mill, camp and tmental committess of rank and file Vight On All Fronts, e of the Vudsers and cuntes up tale sbeuggles of the tones 1.4) 3 inple- ‘ “mist Party shingleweavers with the struggles of all the lumber workers to fight militantly and uncom- promisingly against all the fakers in the I. W. W. and the A. F. of L. To fight against the 4 L’s stool-pigeon outfit and all the com- pany unions and the bosses, to fight against wage cuts, against the inhumanspeed-up sys- tem, against the piece-work system, and for the T-hour day and 5-day week; to fight against the present intolerable working conditions, t6 fight for unemployment and other social in- surance and for the unity of all crafts, trades and nationalities in the entire lumber industry and to present a united front of all workers, of all languages, nationalities and races against the bosses and all their agents. The National Lumber Workers Union calls upon all the workers to join this union; to orgunize councils of unemployed workers in the lumber indusry, o be affiliaed with this union, to clean out of the ranks stool-pigeons and trn'tors, revardiess of where they come from. The time for struggle is now. Vhe Daily Worker is the Party's het instrument te make contacts huitd a mass Communis: Party. ameng ite masses of workers, to Workers! 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